The Mirror of Art

Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture

Genevieve Warwick (University of Edinburgh)

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Cambridge University Press
28 November 2024

Renaissance art; Painting & paintings; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

One of the key pictorial developments of Renaissance art was a conceptualisation of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The idea of painting as specular was argued in Renaissance art theory, demonstrated in art practice, and represented in painting itself. Both within the artist's workshop and within pictorial representation, the mirror-image became the instrument, the emblem, and the conceptual definition of what a painting was. In this volume, Genevieve Warwick brings a dual focus to the topic through an exploration of the early modern elision of the picture plane with the mirror – image. She considers the specular configuration of Renaissance painting from various thematic points of view to offer a fully interdisciplinary analysis of the mirror analogy that pervaded not only art theory and art-making, but also the larger cultural spheres of philosophy, letters, and scientific observation. Warwick's volume recasts our understanding of the inter-visual relationships between disciplines, and their consequences for a specular definition of Renaissance painting.

By: Genevieve Warwick (University of Edinburgh)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 224mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1.480kg
ISBN: 9781009448802
ISBN 10: 1009448803
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Genevieve Warwick is Professor of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. The author of ten books and fifty articles on Renaissance art, from 2012–17 she served as Editor of Art History, the primary British journal for the discipline.